Example sentences of "but in [adj] [pers pn] " in BNC.

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1 Whether this was all done in preparation for his wedding is not certain , but in 1744 he married a daughter of Richard Osborne from neighbouring Wortley House .
2 But in 1945 he was allowed to join the US Army — as a civil censor .
3 But in 1659 he won a landslide victory over a crypto-Royalist , and in the Parliament of Richard Cromwell [ q.v. ] he proposed Chaloner Chute [ q.v. ] as Speaker and rose to his feet ‘ 20 times a day ’ .
4 He applied unsuccessfully for the chair of technology at Edinburgh , and in 1862 was appointed keeper of minerals to the Royal Dublin Society , His meteorological output was confined to the translation of Dove 's book but in 1866 he was approached by his intimate friend ( Sir ) Edward Sabine [ q.v. ] , then at the height of his influence as president of the Royal Society and prospective chairman of the new meteorological committee , and was offered the directorship of the Meteorological Office .
5 The defendant squatter , Tillson , had occupied several acres of agricultural land belonging to the council since 1967 , but in 1983 he had apparently acknowledged the plaintiff council 's title by becoming their tenant of the land .
6 Later in the year , for defence against the Scots , convocation granted a tenth , but in 1298 it refused a possible second instalment on the ground that the Scottish threat had passed .
7 Sharks have huge oily livers , which increase buoyancy , but in general they are obliged to keep swimming to provide enough lift to avoid sinking ; though some species , in practice , are happy to rest on the bottom .
8 Giant tortoises in the past have existed on continents or quasi-continents ( both on South America and Madagascar ) but in general they are island animals .
9 Again , like teachers , there are one or two honest coppers , but in general they nick you for things you have not done or give you a sound slapping to make you remember them .
10 But in general they must be the same as those discussed for the replicators of Chapter 2 : longevity , fecundity , and copying-fidelity .
11 He and Richard must have heard about these things but in general they had failed to register .
12 Features of the first type are almost universally found in adult speech to children , but in general they are not found to be associated with variation in the children 's rate of learning ( Newport , Gleitman and Gleitman , 1977 ; Cross , 1978 ; Ellis , 1978 ) .
13 But if , if our fee bids , that have been going in so far , are there or thereabouts and having monitored reports for quite a while , tendencies and yes some are under and some are a bit over but in general they 're not th they 're not that far out .
14 The lives of articulate people can be more interesting than fiction , but in general they would bore viewers more than the new vogue of delving into every aspect of sexual behaviour in discussion programmes .
15 Well of course the biggest social thing in Ireland is the pub and it 's not I mean the Irish have a a name for being very heavy drinkers but in general they 're not heavy drinkers they just spend a lot of time in pubs .
16 Later this year we will be publishing a more comprehensive paper on this topic outlining what we feel needs to be done to ensure the integrity of official statistics , but in general we believe that there are three principles : 1 .
17 It may happen that the indifference curve is tangent to the c 1 c 2 frontier at G ( the golden rule ) , but in general we would expect to find a situation such as P in Fig. 8–3 where ( as drawn ) .
18 She has almost certainly overestimated both factors ; but in general she is correct in saying that Britain comes up with good ideas and often ends up importing the products that stem from those ideas .
19 But in general I warmed to his fresh and unmannered account of this Concerto , and the orchestral accompaniment under René Leibowitz is especially supportive .
20 But in general I think people accept the fact that with used vehicles erm that , depending on the age and mileage of the vehicle they 've got , they accept that obviously they ca n't have a thousand pound cover on say a hundred thousand mile Sierra for example .
21 Property ( other than a legal estate in land ) may be transferred , and binding promises may be made to an infant , but in general he is unable to make a binding disposition of his property or to make binding promises to others .
22 Much remains unknown about viral persistence but in general it results from stalemate in the battle between the virus and the body .
23 The underlying reasons for this will be considered more fully below but in general it seems clear that large , volume production industries were characterised by low throughput per worker because of over-manning and insufficient intensity of capital use [ Bacon and Eltis , 1974 ; Pratten , 1971 , 1976a ] .
24 But in general it was good for mankind to look outward to the stars .
25 But in general it can be said that authority and direction within cultural production either derived directly from the integral social organization within which such duties were assigned , or , as in the case of classical Greek drama , were assigned within a civic organization and became , in effect , a process of tender and hire .
26 Sometimes a real sense of space is achieved , as on the second-millennium stele of Naramsin , where figures move up and down a tree clad hill under the stars ; but in general it seems no more than an alternative convention for the organisation of narrative over the surface .
27 There is , of course , much argument about what is ‘ normal ’ , but in general it should mean that every adult person lives in a home of his or her own or with chosen friends or family members , that he or she has daily purposeful occupation , whether in paid employment or not , and that the person has social contacts and interpersonal relationships which are emotionally satisfying .
28 In some areas the agency model holds good ( for example , county councils serve as agents of the Department of Transport in constructing motorways and trunk roads ) but in general it conveys an exaggerated picture of central domination , particularly as there is a great deal of evidence of continued local discretion in service provision .
29 All visitors were exhorted to treat the poor courteously , but in general it was optimistically believed that women would be able to talk to women irrespective of social class : not until the 1900s were the difficulties of cross-class communication acknowledged more honestly .
30 Often it will be completely identical , but in general it will tend to end with finality and with an added touch of interest ( e.g. quicker movement , reaching a greater height , using larger leaps , etc . ) .
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